“Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win WWII” by P. O’Connell Pearson is a fascinating and compelling account of the many female pilots who supported the war effort. Especially for those of us who think Amelia Earhart was the one and only female pilot of the early 20th ce…
Long after I read Nafissa Thompson-Spires’ new book, “Heads of the Colored People: Stories,” I found myself thinking about these vignettes and the people that populate them. The characters are quirky, disturbing, funny, tragic, but most of all real, and their stories are tightly written and …
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JERUSALEM (AP) — After a lengthy legal saga, Israel's National Library unveiled on Wednesday a batch of personal letters, illustrations, diaries and handwritten manuscripts previously unseen by the public belonging to famed German language author Franz Kafka.
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Contemporary romantic comedies are having a moment right now. Over the last year, novels featuring characters in search of love in the modern world have exploded in popularity. You can spot them by their covers, which feature bold colors and quirky illustrations of the main characters (who a…
There are fractured fairy tales, and there are shattered fairy tales, such as “Stepsister” (Scholastic 2019) by Jennifer Donnelly.
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George Hess of Ivesdale has heard about his likeness to literary great Ernest Hemingway enough that he spent part of his vacation at the 39th Hemingway Days in Key West, Fla., looking to make it official.
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As we reach the deepest, hottest days of summer, these two new picture books capture the quiet, magical moments that occur during those times.
Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series is one of my favorites to read. I so look forward to reading the book when each one comes out.
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Twisty, turny novels are all the rage these days. Unreliable narrators continue to show strong in publishing as well.
“Caterpillar Summer,” a debut novel by Gillian McDunn, is a perfect summer read, in large part because of the setting. The reader is transported to a small island in North Carolina and a lovely house built high near the dunes and the beach.
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Chances are, even if you have read a lot about World War II, you may not have encountered the name Marie-Madeleine Fourcade.
Rarely does nonfiction win big awards in young readers’ literature. But the nonfiction work “A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919” by Claire Hartfield (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) is the worthy Coretta Scott King 2019 literature winner.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump unloaded via Twitter on Republican former House Speaker Paul Ryan after Ryan's comments critical of Trump appeared in excerpts from a new book.
Ann Kief will hold a book signing for the paperback volume, “Blessed By Adoption,” from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Barnes and Noble, 65 E. Marketview Drive, C.
Since summer is about little things, friendships and time together, check out these two new picture books that celebrate just that.
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Over the last several years, the Champaign Public Library has been honored to bring a number of best-selling authors to our community. Just in time for summer reading, three authors who have appeared as part of our Great Authors at the Library series have brand-new books to enjoy.
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